And it’s what happens when you realize you’ve built up a drawer full of buttons from dress shirts and sweaters that you know you’re never actually going to remember to search through if you were to lose an actual button.

So I decided I may as well put this drawer to better use and make pretty out of all the surplus that is my drawer full of buttons.

Here’s the final product. The how-to is pretty obvious, and I encourage the 2-minute project to anyone with extra buttons. And string.